GC'12 Wrap-up

August Update --> An official Summary of Actions of the 77th General Convention is now available from the General Convention Office:
http://extranet.generalconvention.org/staff/files/download/5901 (pdf file).

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Some excellent and not-so-excellent General Convention wrap-ups have been published since Convention ended on Thursday, July 12.  Here are a few [with responses to the not-so-excellent pieces included]:


Episcopal News Service (official news organ of TEC):

http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2012/07/12/convention-wrap-up-re-envisioning-church-for-the-21st-century/

Center Aisle, a General Convention daily published by the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia:

http://centeraisle.net/2012/07/12/the-abcccs-of-general-convention/

Diocese of Southern Ohio:

http://www.diosohio.org/digital_faith/gc


Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2012/08/03/presiding-bishops-message-to-the-church-on-general-convention/


Scott Gunn, Executive Director of Forward Movement Publications
http://www.sevenwholedays.org/2012/07/30/musings-on-general-convention/#more-5279

Episcopal Café:

http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/general_convention_2012_live/debriefing_general_convention.html


Gay Jennings, new PHoD (Washington Post):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/episcopal-churches-short-on-politics-sexuality-debates-and-long-on-jesus/2012/07/18/gJQAbly0tW_blog.html

Tom Ferguson, Dean at Bexley Hall (the Episcopal Seminary at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio):

http://crustyoldean.blogspot.com/2012/07/knlb4zd-was-taken-as-license-plate.html

A piece in Sojourners magazine:
http://sojo.net/blogs/2012/07/14/praise-episcopalians

A piece in TIME Magazine:
http://ideas.time.com/2012/07/16/god-and-gays/

A piece that puts TEC within a dying "liberal Christianity," in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/opinion/sunday/douthat-can-liberal-christianity-be-saved.html?_r=1&ref=episcopalchurch


Six responses to the NYTimes piece:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-butler-bass/can-christianity-be-saved_1_b_1674807.html

http://unapologetictheology.blogspot.com/2012/07/thank-you-and-rebuttal-to-mr-douthat.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/can-christianity-be-revived/2012/07/18/gJQAD7jXtW_blog.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/despite-doubters-mainline-protestant-churches-are-poised-for-success/2012/07/17/gJQAWdwjrW_story.html

http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2012/07/18/despite-doubters-mainline-protestant-churches-are-poised-for-success/
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2012/07/25/an-entirely-different-critique-of-liberal-christianity/

An unfortunate diatribe (opinion piece) in the Wall Street Journal:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303919504577520950409252574.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle

Four responses to the WSJ opinion piece:

http://arizonabishop.blogspot.com/2012/07/wrong-on-every-count.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-winnie-varghese/the-glorious-episcopal-church_b_1674981.html

http://www.sevenwholedays.org/2012/07/13/errors-wsj/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444464304577534993658282250.html